Lenovo sued over MPEG patent ..

"Friday's complaint in Manhattan federal district court against Lenovo
Group Limited .. is none other than Sullivan & Cromwell. Sullivan's team
is led by partner Garrard Beeney.

Beeney's clients claim that Lenovo knowingly violated their patent on a
type of compression technology called MPEG-2, which is used in
everything from DVDs to satellite television. (MPEG-2 compresses data
into a more manageable form. Without it, an analog movie converted to
DVD, for instance, would require dozens of disks.)

The complaint notes that Lenovo's competitors, such as Hewlett-Packard
Company, Apple Inc., and Sony Corporation, have licensed the technology,
while Lenovo -- which has a 40 percent market share in China and about
25 percent in the United States -- has not. The plaintiffs are expected
to seek eye-popping damages ..